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Try a super ten or straight ten. Lol.I'd love to see an average young American attempt to operate a vehicle with 3 on the tree.
Best we got at work is an 8 hi/lo 10 yard peterbuilt dump.Try a super ten or straight ten. Lol.
That's about the only thing I haven't had an opportunity to drive yet - a 2-speed axle. Would be interesting to check that off someday.Back in the late 60's / early 70's, my dad had his own business. So he had the flexibility to step away from the business when he needed to and let staff run it. This allowed him to be the general contractor for our family home that he built. I was in high school at the time and would help with the house building stuff after school and on weekends (got paid, of course).
He bought an old 56 Dodge 2-ton flatbed for picking up lumber, trusses, rock, etc., to bring to the building site for the carpenters and other sub-contractors. It had a 6 cylinder engine with a 5-speed tranny and a 2-speed rear axel. So, all the work was done with gears instead horsepower. He taught me how to drive it and it was a blast.
It certainly would be theft proof today with a manual tranny AND the 2-speed rear axel. If someone managed to get it started and drive away, they'd probably be stuck in first gear in the low rear axel ratio - speeding away at a BLISTERING 5 miles per hour.
It's pretty easy to learn - logical even. With old rigs like the Dodge, the challenge was learning hows to "finesse" your shifting. There was a "timing and feel" to it - especially moving back and forth between the high and low rear axle ratios. After a while you learned how she liked to be shifted and how she didn't (no innuendo intended - LOL).That's about the only thing I haven't had an opportunity to drive yet - a 2-speed axle. Would be interesting to check that off someday.
Yep. I doubt many Gen-X (my generation) know how to drive a column shift. I learned to drive on one when I was 15.You guys are giving a lot of crap to a generation that doesn't deserve it. You're referring to millennials when what you mean is Gen z. Millennials are in their 30s/40s. Young people don't get to know how to drive stick because they generally don't exist outside niche markets anymore. In 20 more years, the next generation will need to know them even less. It's also not that hard to learn when given a half hour lesson. Or maybe the old folk in the room just want to flick the young ones crap instead of actually being of help?
Fwiw, my daily is a manual.
I'm in my mid 30s and my dad didn't give me the option of automatic/manual. He said you WILL learn to drive a manual. After you have done so you can choose which you prefer.You guys are giving a lot of crap to a generation that doesn't deserve it. You're referring to millennials when what you mean is Gen z. Millennials are in their 30s/40s. Young people don't get to know how to drive stick because they generally don't exist outside niche markets anymore. In 20 more years, the next generation will need to know them even less. It's also not that hard to learn when given a half hour lesson. Or maybe the old folk in the room just want to flick the young ones crap instead of actually being of help?
Fwiw, my daily is a manual.
Swing by my tree farm and drive my Ford dump with an 8-speed Lo/Lo and 2-speed Eaton rear axles. In Granny/Low and the axles in Low, you can walk twice as fast as it moves at idle.That's about the only thing I haven't had an opportunity to drive yet - a 2-speed axle. Would be interesting to check that off someday.